Lament of Slowness - Ancient Kingdoms

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Description

Skill Type: Area debuff
Effect: Bard song (0.1% stronger per CHA), −4% × rank haste, 20s

Requirements

Tier Limit: 2 Tier 1 skills
Class Skill Points Already Spent: 10
Required Weapon: Instrument

Cost & Timing

Cast Time: 3.5s
Range: 8 yd

Spell Casting Haste shortens the cast by its percentage, so 20% Spell Casting Haste turns the 3.5s cast into 2.8s.

Buff/Debuff Effects

Duration: 20s
Haste: −4% × rank

Rank Scaling

Rank	Haste
1	−4%
2	−8%
3	−12%
4	−16%
5	−20%

Mechanics

Song Aura

Your selected song repeats automatically, renewing its duration after each cast. Spell Casting Haste speeds up these casts. The song lasts 20s after its last cast, even when you switch songs. Lingering Melody lengthens this duration.

Active Song Limit

A Bard sustains two songs by default (the Active Songs value in your character window). Starting another song at the limit ends the song you renewed longest ago. Learning Polyphony removes the limit. See Bard Songs.

Song Scaling

Bard

Song power: 100% + 0.1% per point of Charisma above 0, at most 300%
Skill Haste reduction: 4% at rank 1, +4% per rank (20% at rank 5)
Haste reduction: Skill Haste reduction × Song power

Example ,rank 5,100 Charisma

22% Haste reduction

Song power: 100% + 10% × 1 = 110%

Skill Haste reduction: 4% + 4% × (5 − 1) = 20%

Haste reduction: 20% × 110% = 22%

Songs scale with Charisma, not Wisdom or Intelligence.

Resist Chance

Each point of the target's Magic Resist adds 0.05% to its chance to resist this debuff. Each 1% of the caster's Accuracy subtracts 1% from that chance. Each level the target is above the caster adds 0.5%, and each level below subtracts 0.5%, up to 10% either way. The chance stays between 0% and 90%. See resistance and avoidance.

This debuff has no effect on monsters whose pages list Immune to Debuffs.

Learned by Classes

Bard